| Sitting side by side with corpses? The following is from Spurgeon's sermon, "Alive or Dead- Which?" No. 755. 1 John 5:12. The moralist says, "Oh! I have always lived a chaste, upright, moral life. I have been attentive to religious duties...." I tell you, unbelieving moralist, what you are- you are a corpse well washed and decently laid out, daintily robed in fair white linen, sprinkled plenteously with sweet perfumes, and wrapped in myrrh, and cassia, and aloes, with flowers wreathed about your brow, and your bosom bedecked by the hand of affection with sweetly blushing roses. But you have no spiritual life, and therefore your destiny is the grave, corruption is your heritage, and your place of abode is fixed, "where their worm dies not, and the fire not quenched." For, "He that believes not shall be damned." With all your excellencies and moralities, with all your baptisms and his sacraments, "He that believes not shall be damned." There is no middle place, no specially reserved and superior abodes for these noble and virtuous unbelievers. If they have not believed, they shall be bound up in bundles with the rest, for God has appointed to all unbelievers their portion with liars, and thieves, and whoremongers, and drunkards, and idolaters. Beware, you unbelievers, for your unbelief will be the most condemning evidence against you at the great judgment day. Some of you are spiritually dead. Is not this terrible? Oh, if by some touch of an angel's wand, our bodies should all become as our souls are, how many corpses would fill these aisles, and crowd these pews! Oh! what a sight this place would be! Those of us who are alive would hasten to gather up our things and say, "Let us be gone! How can we sit side by side with corpses?" |
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Sitting side by side with corpses?
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